TAB Blog Posts
I need help in transitioning my room to one that Teaches For Artistic Behaviors. Here are some good blogs & blog posts about TAB I need to read. Day to Day in my TAB Classroom by: Mrs. Barnett TAB Category posts by Mrs. B Supporting Choice in High School by:Mrs. M Purtee Transition to a choice […]
Prom Songs
Here are the songs from the 2012 prom: Main Song: Summer Nights- Rascal Flatts What winners are going to dance to: She’s My Kind of Rain- Tim McGraw Rack City (clean)-Tyga The Motto- Drake (clean) Dance- Big Sean feat. Nicki Minaj Cashin Out- Cash out (clean) UP – Love Rance (clean) Birthday Cake- Rihanna (clean) […]
Valentine’s Notan
I was inspired by Matt Mazur’s lesson Notan From Dark to Light published in the January 2014 issue of Arts and Activities Magazine. “The Japanese concept of Notan involves a play between dark and light. Some of the Robert Motherwell’s paintings and Japanese characters are good examples of light and dark contrast that connect […]
Stained Glass Starter Kit
I am working on developing a stained glass unit with my advanced art students. I plan to ask the artist Betti L. to come do a demonstration and be a visiting artist for a period in my classroom. You will need glass scorers, running pliers, glass grinders, grossing pliers, copper foil or lead cane (I […]
Sit Down and Speak Up
I love the projects featured on The Blooming Palette. Several semesters I saw the Sit Down and Speak Up project and fell in love with it. I show my students the Rock the Vote 2014 video and ask them to pick an issue important to them. We brainstorm a list of words and practice drawing […]
Artist Trading Cards
Wikipedia says that ATC’s are, “Artist trading cards (or ATCs) are miniature works of art about the same size as modern trading cards baseball cards, or 2 1⁄2 by 3 1⁄2 inches (64 mm × 89 mm), small enough to fit inside standard card-collector pockets, sleeves or sheets. The ATC movement developed out of the […]
TAB Books
I want to learn more about Teaching for Artistic Behavior and would like to buy the following books: Choice without Chaos Kindle Edition Engaging Learners Through Artmaking: Choice-Based Art Education in the Classroom And I want to buy this book about teaching drawing How to Draw: drawing and sketching objects and environments from your imagination
Elementary Art Books
On the art teacher facebook group teachers recommend the following books for the artroom: The Dot Ish Art Dog When Pigasso Met Mootisse anything in the Getting to Know World’s Famous Artist series, Mouse Paint Color Dance Rabbit’s Color Book Why is Blue Dog Blue Roberto the Insect Architect I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More […]
Artist Report
On the facebook group Art Teachers, there were two cool artist report ideas that I saw today. The first was a painting on a bottle with the report rolled up as the message in the bottle. This project is the idea of Jodie Kill-Victoria. Here is what she has to say, “Tried a different approach […]
Task Party
I first read about Task Party’s on my Art Teacher Facebook group from a post written by Ian Sands.Another art teacher, Mrs. B, has done this in her classroom – This activity is just TASK-ing to have fun. From her blog: What? In other words, TASK is an activity where artists pull a TASK from […]